PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 228, 24 January 1885, Page 14

PERSONAL

Is that house in Clarence-street a boardinghouse, or what ? Mr J. A. Froude, tho distinguished lustorian, has reached Adelaide. The Hon. D. Pollen arrived from, the South by the Rotomahana on Monday. Have Edie and Low leased the counter of the lolly mashah's for Saturday afternoons '? What would the auburn-haired jeweller's wife say if she saw him trotting ont dear Alice ? i Ask that fair young Hebe at the United Service to tell all she knows about that umbrella. Walter C. spends too much of his time on the balcony of that hotel criticising the ladiesbustles. | A sight for the gods to see last "Wedn es~ day night at "Jane Shore: Satan c l« \ Bunthornc. Does the manager of that bank at Gisborne practice on tho violin every evening to attract Miss F. ? That young- lady of Alexandra-street ought to be ashamed of being seen in the company of the ex-barmaid. That young schoolmaster of Wellingtonstreet was very lavish with the conversation lollies at the Xorthcote picnic. That engaged young person of Vincentstreet had'better not keep " Yellow Jack "' as another string to her bow. Professor (Smith and Mrs Smith wore passengers to Auckland from Tauranga by the Clansman on Saturday last. Which one of tho telegraph operators is it that plays gooseberry to that tailoress of an evening going up Victoria- street ': Has the masher Ponsonby butcher got that married woman as his new housekeeper yet, and what has he done with the other woman r Captain D.'s face wore finite a seraphic expression when those two young ladies clung to his coat tails at the Guard of Honour pic-nic. Satan says that it is not a case of sour grapes, as Violet said she would take no more notice of an insignificant little boy like Tony. An Ellerslio correspondent asserts that the couple in the Grood Templars' Lodge who knocked down the Inner Guard and got out only wanted to sj)oon. How many nights a week does that greasy Ponsonby butcher clandestinely visit a certain house in Clarence-street, whore he is keeping a married woman away from her family 'i Who was the captain in the Union Company — who professes Christianity — that refused to lower his flag at the death of his chief steward, one of the company's oldest servants ? All the Uokeby-strect and White House ladies of fame have, we are told, received notice from the police to leave town vn a trip for the good of their health and that of the city ! That fair mash cress at Abbott's is "drawing." All the Gisborno sparks give her a look up. The Hill is an attraction rather than an obstacle. What presses Ingle into the Service ? Mr Oliver Mays, Immigration Officer, has received his comje. Nothing less than an illuminated address and an electroplated tea and coffee service will soothe his wounded feelings. Mr W. W. Robinson, and some other members of tho Auckland cricket team which lately played a series of matches in I the South, returned to Auckland by the Eotorua on Sunday. Mrs Dawson was the winner of Mr Win. Aitkcn's special prize for the biggest catch of fish, having hauled in as many as 32. Nobody like a woman for angling, and looking after good catches. Major Te Whcoro and Mr Skidmore. who accompanied Tawhiao on his trip to England, but remained behind when tho Maori King returned, arrived by the lonic at Wellington on Tuesday last. The long masher, who waited for half -an - hour to take the young lady out for a walk, appeared greatly disappointed when he heard that she had gone out with another. You old fool. If that thrreepenn'orth -of -hop - beer " slab," who insulted the young lady in Princes-street by offering her a ticket for Sydney, does not mind himself he will require a ticket for tho Hospital. 'JS"uff sod. , Mr H. S. Fitzhepbert, member for the Hutt, and son of Sir William Fitzherbert, Speaker of the Legislative Council, is now in Auckland on a vacation tour, and is visiting the princijDal places possessing interest for tourists. Judge Gillies is clearly of opinion that it does not follow that because a girl is " a gay, giddy young girl " she is a crooked one. He says, " I assume, gentleman, it is frequently the case that such are the purest and least easily overcome by designing people." Of course, the jury accepted his experienced dictum without demur or further argument.

The cry is still they come ! Fourteen more candidates for the bar will face the music in March. Why doesn't some good philanthropic man like the late Mr Costley leave a bequest for the establishment of an Indigent Lawyers' liefuge ?

Mr 1?. T. Booth, the Gospel-temperance lecturer, has arrived, and the cold water brigade are jubilant. Of course, the Waterworks Engineer will have to put on extra pressure at the Springs during the coiningcampaign. An advertisement in one of our contemporaries is headed, " The night before the battle." whereat our P.1)., being seized with tlie divine afliatus, gusheth thusly : — Just before the battle, brother, I urn drinking mountain dew, And I think I'll tnke another Jnsfc before I don the bine. Comi-iides are round my l.yinjr, Filled with pints of Whit son's beer ; But they'll lind it very trying 1 To swear oil' while Booth is here. The remainder of this effusion is unavoidably crowded out.